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This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME - Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural …
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An important evaluation problem in developing countries is assessing the value and optimal use of environmental resources as inputs into production. This is a key methodology required for many general evaluation approaches, e.g. ensuring the most efficient use of a resource requires...
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multinationals in Asia is in line with our theoretical predictions. …
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Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
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Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming...
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To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap-and-trade regime are the most concrete unilateral trade measure put forward to level the carbon playing field. If improperly implemented, such measures could disturb the world...
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International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the...
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and arrangements to prevent, anticipate and resolve sovereign debt crises. In the second half of 1997, East Asia's turmoil …
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Since the seminal works of Schumpeter (1937) and Arrow (1962), economists have recognised that the innovation process … govern the appropriability of economic returns from innovation In this paper we focus on one particular aspect of the … relationship between market structure and innovation, that is the effect of regulation on the incentives to innovate of a regulated …
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The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a … multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey …. The objective is to analyse the general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the …
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